A reader chips in
GOLFER Bill Lothian writes: "The reference to a Nicola Sturgeon being an awkward five footer in golf putting terms was funny to me as both a golfer and SNP member. However, in interests of balance, when golfing my pals and I identify with a Tony Blair - a shot that starts off down the left then lurches right- and a Boris which is a bad lie from which you play on regardless."
He bottled it
WE mentioned the difficulties of bringing up children, and a reader in Pollokshaws says: "The plus side of having kids is that if I ever break down in the car in a remote area, I'll have at least half-a-dozen half-empty bottles of water to live on."
Questionable behaviour
WE realise it was First Minister's Questions at the Scottish Parliament yesterday and we turn to social media to see if we missed anything. One observer wrote: "Ruth made some considered, perceptive points, Kezia criticised the Tories, and folk sat up and noticed Willie.
"Only joking."
No leg to stand on
SOMEHOW we stumbled into stories about artificial limbs, and David Donaldson swears to us: "The husband of a tea-lady we employed in the early eighties had an artificial leg and one of her marital sanctions was to put his leg on top of the wardrobe. Once, when he came home much the worse for drink, she was was so angry she whipped it off him and threw it out the landing window into the back green three floors below."
We've got your number
WE should bring down the curtain on our stories about Glasgow pantos that had 13-letter titles with David Walker passing on: "I remember a panto called Saturmacnalia back in the 60s or 70s. The papers commented on the 'mac' being slipped in to satisfy the 13-letter rule."
Keeping track of Jim
WE would never condone violence, but football fans were heatedly debating the Hibs v Morton game and the claim by Hibs manager Neil Lennon that shaven-headed, Maryhill-born Morton manager Jim Duffy challenged him to a square-go.
There were even polls on who would win such an exchange with perhaps the most colourful description was the fan who declared: " Jim Duffy would have thrown him about like a wet trackie."
Putting the boot in
WE were waiting news on Ken Livingstone's future with the Labour Party after his recent comments about Hitler. As one reader emails us: "Livingstone faces the boot from the Labour Party - but says he doesn’t mind as long as it's knee-high, black and shiny."
Trained observer
WE read that the early morning Neilston to Glasgow Central trains that go through Whitecraigs and Muirend are amongst the most overcrowded in Scotland. It reminds us of a Whitecraigs reader who told us a young girl got on the train and told her pal: "There was a guy in the waiting room, not texting or looking at his phone or anything! Just waiting. Really freaked me out."
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